{"id":7925,"date":"2025-11-11T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=7925"},"modified":"2025-11-11T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:22:09","slug":"and-the-lord-saw-that-leah-was-hated","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/and-the-lord-saw-that-leah-was-hated\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Lord Saw that Leah Was Hated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>147) It is written, \u201cAnd the Lord saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.\u201d It is also written, \u201cWho makes the barren woman to dwell in her house as a joyful mother of children. Hallelujah.\u201d \u201cWho makes the barren woman to dwell in her house\u201d is Rachel, the essence of the house. \u201cAs a joyful mother of children\u201d is Leah, who gave birth to six sons and a daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>148) \u201cWho makes the barren woman to dwell in her house\u201d is Shmita, Nukva of ZA, the essence, since this world is led by her. \u201cAs a joyful mother of children\u201d is Yovel, Bina, upon which every joy and gladness in the worlds BYA depends, since the Nukva of ZA has nothing of her own, except what ZA receives from Bina and imparts upon her. And then she imparts upon all the worlds. Thus, every joy in the worlds BYA comes from Bina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This verse is the sum of everything, comprising the hidden world and the revealed world. This is why the text ends, \u201cHallelujah,\u201d which is above all the praises in psalms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>149) \u201cAnd the Lord saw that Leah was hated.\u201d But the sons of a hated one are not decent sons, and all the good sons came out of Leah. However, Yovel is the hidden world; this is why all its actions were concealed from Jacob, since she was in concealed love for him. On the surface, she seemed hated, since Leah is from Chazeh of ZA and above, which is considered Ima, Yovel, the hidden world. This is why all its matters are in concealment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>150) The lower world, Rachel, Nukva of ZA, is revealed, the beginning of everything in the rise in degrees. It is like upper Hochma, Hochma of AA, which begins everything from above downwards. Similarly, the lower world, Hochma, begins everything from below upwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is called \u201cyou\u201d because she is Shmita and she is revealed. The Hassadim in her appear in illumination of Hochma, which is the Yod that exits the Avir and Ohr [light] remains. At that time, the Nukva of ZA is called Shmita.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>151) The upper world, Yovel, is Leah that is extended from Ima. We call it \u201che\u201d because all its words are in concealment, since the word \u201che\u201d implies to the hidden world. It is written about Leah, \u201cAnd he lay with her that night.\u201d The servant of the Levite is the work of the Tent of Meeting. The Levite works to draw blessings from him, from \u201che\u201d to all the worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe\u201d is the upper, hidden world, and Jacob was adhered to the revealed desire, as it is written, \u201cAnd shall cleave unto his wife.\u201d It is written, \u201cTherefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,\u201d which are the hidden world, \u201cAnd shall cleave unto his wife,\u201d who is the revealed world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>152) \u201cAnd the Lord saw that Leah was hated,\u201d since she extended from Ima. A man hates the nakedness of his mother because his mother is the hidden world. This is why it is written, \u201cA man shall leave his father and his mother,\u201d and a man is alone with his mother in every place, and does not fear the prohibition on seclusion [prohibition to be alone with a woman who is not a wife or first degree kin]. 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